Rules

Feng Yulan called midway and asked Luo Jian where he had gone. He had been waiting for a long time. Luo Jian looked at the masked man in front of him who continued to walk expressionlessly. He was worried, so he smiled and said perfunctorily: "Alan, I have something to do and I can't come. You can just order something to eat. Don't miss me. Oh dear~"

"I miss your sister! What's with that damn disgusting tone of yours?!" Feng Yulan felt horrified on the other end of the phone, wondering if Luo Jian was possessed by something strange. Luo Jian looked at the phone twice and then hung up.

"Damn! I got rich and invited you to dinner, but you still pretended to be cool!" Feng Yulan threw the phone and started to get angry.

On the other side, Luo Jian followed the masked man into a private room on the second floor of the bar, where two people were sitting facing each other and drinking, as if they were having a drinking competition. There were bottles lying on the ground. The masked man was no longer surprised by this scene, and said to one of them: "Boss, I brought him back."

The man called the boss was a middle-aged uncle. His clothes were in tatters, his hair was messy, and his face was covered with stubble. His cheeks were red after drinking too much. It was hard to imagine that he could still look like this. Known as the boss.

"Um, newcomer, this is really rare... a rare sight!" The uncle was obviously drunk. He stood up unsteadily with a wine bottle in his hand and approached Luo Jian to observe him. As soon as this person approached Luo Jian, he could clearly smell the smell of liquor on him, which made Luo Jian raise his eyebrows in disgust.

Luo Jian smokes and drinks, but he is generally very temperate. He is a person who knows how to control himself, and will never let himself be in an embarrassing state of unconsciousness and drunkenness. Therefore, he also kept away from these drunkards and took a step back to distance himself.

Unexpectedly, although the drunkard looked drunk and confused, his senses were still quite sharp. He noticed Luo Jian's vigilance and alienation, so he laughed and sat back on the sofa, and then he put down the bottle of wine, said to Luo Jian: "Newcomer, let me introduce myself to you. I am the person in charge here and the guide for all newcomers in this city. Our rules here are that you cannot give your real name, you can only call your code name. They all call I'm boss...or Persia? You can also call me like this."

Before Luo Jian could reply, the boss uncle pointed at the masked man standing next to him and continued: "He is my partner and assistant, codenamed Thirteen. He is a taciturn guy, the legendary sultry man. "

Uncle Boss's description seemed to have touched the masked man. Luo Jian swore he saw the fists clenched unconsciously under the masked man's sleeves and the slight twitching expression at the corners of his eyes.

However, the boss didn't care about such details. He laughed very nervously, and then asked Luo Jian: "What's your name... Oh no no no! You can't give your real name, just give a code name you like. Or a nickname, an English name will do, the simpler, the better, it will be convenient to call you."

Luo Jian thought for a while. He really didn't have any nicknames. From childhood to college, his classmates gave nicknames to everyone except Luo Jian. Luo Jian thought for a long time and replied: "Then, call me Jian."

"Okay, Ajian, what do you want to know?" The boss smiled as if he had evil intentions.

"Everything, I want to know."

"Greedy little guy. Okay, then sit down and listen to me slowly." The boss patted the sofa and motioned for Luo Jian to sit down. Luo Jian nodded and sat down obediently, and the masked man next to him followed suit. When we got to the boss, there was another man in the box. He was the man who had a drink with the boss uncle just now. This guy didn't even raise his head or look at Luo Jian. He huddled in the corner and continued to drink.

Luo Jian paid no attention to that person. He focused his attention on the big boss and listened carefully to his story.

"Although you are a newcomer, you have experienced an escape room at least once, so you should know very well that that secret room cannot be created by human beings' existing technology or capabilities."

Boss' organizational language started: "I don't know who created the Chamber of Secrets. Maybe it was a god, maybe a demon, maybe a monster or even an alien. In short, it appeared, and in our lives, it's like a sentence Well said, existence is reasonable."

"We don't need to investigate its origin, as long as we know what the secret room can bring us." Even if the boss uncle told a story, he did not forget to take a sip of wine, smacked his lips and burped, and continued: "What the secret room can bring us bringing death can also bring miracles."

"In all different types of secret rooms, the note will give us a time limit, telling us how long you can exist in the secret room. If you have not escaped from the secret room after this time, you will die. Don't doubt what I say, the death I say is real death!

Completely obliterated, completely dead without even a trace of existence!

If you don't want to die, you must escape within the specified time. The note will give us clues, and usually we can find the exit by solving the mystery. The first secret room that new people experience is the simplest. You can escape from there with almost no effort, as long as you overcome your inner fear..."

"Wait a minute! Boss..." Luo Jian, who was obediently listening to the class, raised his hand to speak.

"Say!" The boss was very mighty, holding up the wine bottle and taking another sip of wine.

"You said the first level for newcomers is easy?"

"yes."

"Is this true?"

"Why are you lying to me? Isn't the first level you went through easy?"

Is that called simple? Luo Jian touched his chin with a suspicious look on his face. He thought of the murderer who almost stabbed him to death in the secret room. Can that be called a 'simple' level? The murderer was obviously capable of killing people and had an extraordinary temperament. Luo Jian was no match for him!

Or do they have different concepts of 'simple'? Luo Jian frowned and looked at the boss uncle again. The poor uncle was horrified by Luo Jian's look. He shook his hair and said, "It seems that you have encountered a problem. Tell me, what did you encounter in the first level? "

So Luo Jian honestly told what happened to him in the secret room. It was not a particularly remarkable thing anyway, but he omitted the part where he went to kiss the murderer in a daze. That was too embarrassing and completely It was a stupid thing Luo Jian did while unconscious.

But what I didn't expect was that when Luo Jian finished speaking, the entire box was silent.

Uncle Boss stopped drinking. He frowned and lowered his head, thinking about something. After a while, he came back to his senses and looked at Luo Jian. He carefully observed the newcomer up and down. That weird little look in his eyes made Luo Jian very interesting. Goosebumps spread all over my body.

"Is there any problem?" he asked cautiously.

"Yes, you poor kid, your problem is really huge!" The boss finally looked at Luo Jian with pity, shook his head and sighed, and said; "You can meet the 'Stalker' in the first level, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you in the rest. Don't even think about it."

"Stalker? What is that?" Luo Jian listened to the new term coming out of the other person's mouth and expressed confusion.

"The stalker is the 'murderer' you met in the secret room." The boss explained: "There is such a group of people in the secret room... No, they should not be called people, they should be said to be a group of monsters! These monsters will randomly appearing in various secret rooms and replacing a character in the secret room at will and will cause you extremely terrible harm. We call these monsters - stalkers."

"Stalkers...are they scary?"

"It's very scary. Once a stalker appears, the possibility of death is 100%. But the probability of appearance is also very low. The chance of encountering a stalker in each secret room is only 8%. You, a newcomer, are so unlucky. Oh, you can unexpectedly encounter a stalker in the first level of the simplest novice test room!"

Boss's description made Luo Jian tremble in his heart. It reminded him of the terrifying murderer with red eyes in the secret room. He was already sure that he was dead, but as soon as he turned around, the murderer could appear silently behind him, stabbed Luo Jian directly in the stomach without mercy, almost Luo Jian would not see the sun tomorrow.

By the way, I even kissed him! Luo Jian suddenly broke out in cold sweat and couldn't help but cover her mouth.

Boss didn't notice Luo Jian's strange behavior and was still shaking his head and sighing at Luo Jian's tragic fate.

"But I'm not dead yet." Luo Jian thought of a question, so the good boy started asking: "Isn't it said that once a stalker appears, he will definitely die?"

"Who said death is inevitable? I just said that the possibility of death is as high as 100%, but in fact there are people who can escape, but those who can escape on their own are without exception the strong! I can't understand it Yes..." The boss stared at Luo Jian with squinting eyes and disdain: "What I don't understand is that you, a rookie who knows nothing, can escape. It's really strange, isn't it?"

"What...what's weird! Maybe I have a good character!" Luo Jian felt a little guilty. He had been struggling with this problem. How did he escape in the end? He was obviously unconscious at the time. Could it be that the stalker was kind enough to let him go and push him out of the door?

Luo Jian didn't know that he had hit the nail on the head and was still struggling with it, but the optimist Luo Jian quickly forgot about it and surrounded the boss and asked: "Every time you successfully escape from the room, you can return to Realistically, and then take a ten-day break before continuing the escape room?"

"Yes."

"Then when will it end? I mean, when will we never experience this hellish secret room again?"

"Actually, I'm also looking for an answer to this question." The boss said regretfully

"Actually, I'm not much better than you. I've only experienced five escape rooms in total, and each time is more difficult than the last. You have to know that it's not a closed room. A small room can be called a secret room, such as a deserted island without any contact with the outside world, a deep cave like a maze that cannot be walked out, a jungle that cannot be walked out even if it takes three days and three nights, that kind of An isolated and closed environment can be called a secret room!"

Luo Jian was trembling in her heart and asked in panic: "So every time I experience this kind of escape room game, am I the only one?"

Yes, it would be really scary to be alone in that closed environment, completely isolated from everything around you.

"Usually there is only one person." The boss spread his hands, suddenly looked at the masked man Thirteen next to him, and smiled: "But you can also form a team with others, provided that someone is willing to join you."

Luo Jian's eyes suddenly lit up and asked, "How can I form a team with others?"

"When forming a team, the number of people is generally limited to one to three people, which means you can only invite up to two people to form a team. The people you invite cannot be ordinary people in real life, but must be players who have experienced escape room games like you. …"

"Player?"

"Yes, those of us who are struggling in the secret room like to call ourselves players. It's ridiculous that the game we play is such a terrible death game."

The boss sighed again, and then took out a note from his pocket. Luo Jian took a closer look and was surprised to find that the note was the kind of small note with purple hell flowers printed on it in the secret room. The boss took the paper Pushed the note in front of Luo Jian and said: "If you want to invite other players, then write this note in the form of an invitation letter and write the name of the person you want to invite. If the other party agrees, they will write it on the back of the note. Sign. Then you will be considered as a team by the secret room. Next time you experience the secret room escape, you will be able to be together."

"But there is one thing you must pay special attention to. If you play the game in team mode, the secret room will increase the difficulty. Two people will be double, three people will be triple. It is a very exaggerated difficulty factor, so many players would rather play alone. None of them like to form a team with others. And... the players in the secret room all have some conflicts with each other. You may not understand it now but you will understand it later. In short, these conflicts will make it difficult for you to find suitable team members."

"In other words, so far, it would be better for me to play the game alone?"

Boss nodded: "That's right."